2008 Conference [1] | Conference Schedule [2] | Conference Resources | Speaker Biographies [3]
General Readings
Poverty and the Modern Welfare State [5]
Abstracts and Readings
Usha Balakrishnan
President & CEO, CARTHA
Phone: 319-248-9625
Email (mailto: usha.balakrishnan@gmail.com [6])
Website: www.cartha.org [7]
Lecture: Collaborative Doers in Global Health Technology Transfer Partnerships [Abstract [8]]
Readings:
General information on CARTHA's vision, program portfolio, and pilot initiatives are posted at www.cartha.org [7].
Surveying the need for "Technology Management for Global Health" training programs, by Balakrishnan, Troyer, and Brands, Journal of the Association of Unversity Technology Managers, 18 (2006): 53-68. Article is accessible at http://www.tmgh.org [9] under Publications.
For an expansive overview of global health issues and specific grant-making programs of philanthropies, please refer to the websites of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (www.gatesfoundation.org [10]), the Rockefeller Foundation (www.rockfound.org [11]) and the philanthropy arm of Google at www.google.org [12].
The Challenge of Global Health, by Laurie Garrett in the Foreign Affairs Journal, January/February 2007, accessible at http://www.foreignaffairs.org [13]
Christiana Bastos
Lecture
International Responses to AIDS [Abstract [14]]
Readings
A critical analysis of the Brazilian response to HIV-AIDS [15]
The Politics of AIDS [16]
The Activist State; Global Pharmaceutical, AIDS, and Citizenship in Brazil [17]
Douglas E. Beardsley, MPH, CPHA
Director of the Johnson County (Iowa) Public Health Department
Readings
Prevention is Primary (Table of Contents) [18]
Prevention is Primary (Chapter 1) [19]
Future of Public Health in the 21st Century [20]
Stephen Bezruchka
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, U of Washington
Email (mailto:sabez@u.washington.edu [21])
Lecture:
Determinants of Global Population Health and Development [Abstract [22]]
Readings:
Bezruchka, S., T. Namekata, et al. (forthcoming 2008). "Improving Economic Equality and Health: the Case of Postwar Japan." American Journal of Public Health 98(4): 216-221. This should be in the April issue available before the conference.
Bezruchka, S. (2006). Chapter 1: Epidemiological Approaches. Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness and Health Care [23]. D. Raphael, T. Bryant and M. Rioux. Toronto, Canadian Scholars' Press: 13-33.
Bezruchka, S. and M. A. Mercer (2004). The Lethal Divide: How Economic InequalityAffects Health. Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health [24]. M. Fort, M. A. Mercer and O. Gish. Boston, South End Press: 11-18.
Bezruchka, S. (2000). Is Globalization Dangerous to Our Health? [24] West. Jr. Med. 172: 332-334.
Heather Byers
Readings:
Doing Good While Living Well [25]
Microfinance [26]
Sustainable Microfinance for Women [27]
Colin Gordon
Email (colin-gordon@uiowa.edu [28])
Website: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/cgordon [29]
Lecture:
The lost reform: six lessons from a long history
Readings:
Health Care Reform and Social Movements in the United States [30]
Myths as Barriers to Health Care Reform in the United States [32]
Gabriel Gulis
Unit for Health Promotion Research, Institute of Public Health of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark
Email (mailto:ggulis@health.sdu.dk [33] )
Lecture:
Measuring Health around the World [Abstract [34]]
Readings:
Cole BL, Fielding JE: Health impact assessment: A tool to help policy makers understand health beyond health care [35]. Ann. Rev. Public Health 2007; 28: 393-412.
McKee M: Solidarity in a unified Europe, European Journal of Public Health [36] 2008; 18(1): 2-4.
David Legge
Lecture:
Health and globalization; a global social movements approach [Abstract [37]]
Readings:
United Nations (2006) World Economic and Social Survey 2006: Diverging Growth and Development [39]
Joseph Stiglitz (2006) Making Globalization Work. Norton: New York
Howard Waitzkin
Distinguished Professor, Departments of Sociology, Family and Community Medicine, and Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico.
Email (mailto:waitzkin@unm.edu [40])
Lecture
Cautionary Tales: Exporting Managed Care [Abstract [41]]
Readings:
Global Trade and Public Health [42]; Ellen R. Shaffer, Howard Waitzkin. Joseph Brenner and Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar, Am J Public Health. 95:23-34, 2005.
Global trade, public health, and health services: Stakeholders’constructions of the key issues [42]; Howard Waitzkin_, Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar, Angela Landwehr, Carolyn Mountain. Social Science & Medicine 61, 893–906; 2005.
Global Trade And Public Health [43]; Howard Waitzkin, Letter. Am J Public Health, Vol 95, No. 2, 192, 2005.
Miles Weinberger
Professor, Pediatrics, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Email (mailto:miles-weinberger@uiowa.edu [44])
Lecture
Fragmented Insurance Versus A Universal Plan –Economics of U.S. Health Care [Abstract [45]] [46]
Readings
Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America. Colin Gordon. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2003.
Health Care Meltdown. Robert H LeBow, MD, revised and updated by C. Rocky White, MD. Alan C Hood & Company Inc, Chambersburg PA, 2007.
Joseph White PhD
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Chair
Department of Political Science; Director, Center for Policy Studies
Case Western Reserve University
Email: (mailto:jxw87@case.edu [47])
Lecture:
Is there an international standard in health care policy? [Abstract [48]]
